Last Days of Kodak Town
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stompyq
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I lived in Rochester for more than 6 years and have many many friends who still live there and see often. I find this article insulting. Rochester is hardly the ghost town that this makes out to be. Kodak is certainly not the largest employer, but the city has moved on and is doing very well for itself compared to other cities upstate. Biased and ****ty article
Ronald M
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One needs to be careful when a large percent of the employment is provided by one company. Should they go out of business, decide to move, downsize, most peoples largest asset, the home, will devalue and can not be taken to a new place.
jbielikowski
Jan Bielikowski
well, they need to sell the album somehow.
burninfilm
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Hmm... they could probably do a similar project for many other U.S. cities, though I can certainly see the irony of a photography project related to the demise of Kodak. The article does sound a bit bogus, with it's very narrow perspective on the present and future of Rochester.
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Roger Hicks
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Quite. Frances was born there; her late father worked for Kodak for a while; her late uncle was a Kodak pilot.
For a book about photography, it also sounds a bit ignorant: '"We decided to ask around to see if some obscure technician still processed Kodachrome," says Webb. "No one did it as colour, but we did discover that Ed Praus, a photographer who runs a lab in Rochester, could develop it as black-and-white. At Rebecca's urging, I tried out a few rolls. To our surprise, it came out as negative and looked distressed, almost weathered."'
Webb is clearly a man who understands his craft and has deep historical awareness...
Cheers,
R.
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